Milestones, Apr. 29, 1946

Born. To Tito Schipa (pronounced Skeepa), 57, Italian-born ex-Metropolitan Opera tenor, and Teresa Borgna Schipa, 22, his second wife: his third child, her first, a son; in Lisbon. Name: Tito Luis Joao Michelangelo. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz.

Married. Frances Heenan (“Peaches”) Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, flapper-era child bride and later burlesqueen; and Ralph N. Willson, 36, former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Break-a-Heart Ranch, near Reno.

Married. Ninon Tallon, 39, niece of ex-Premier Edouard Herriot of France, onetime French cinemactress; and Oscar Karlweis, 49, Austrian-born Broadway star (Jacobowsky & the Colonel; I Like It Here); both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Maria Iturbi Hero, 28, daughter of famed Spanish pianist Jose Iturbi, divorced wife of Violinist Stephen Hero, onetime boy prodigy; by her own hand (gunshot); in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. Mae Busch, 49, early-day Keystone Comedy cinemactress and “versatile vamp” of the silent films; after long illness; in Hollywood.

Died. Dr. Walter Edward Dandy, 60, world-famed brain surgeon, protege and a successor of the late great Dr. Harvey Gushing as chief neurological surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital; of coronary thrombosis; in Baltimore.

Died. John (“Jack”) Quinn Picus, 60, oldest active pitcher in major-league baseball at the time of his retirement in 1935, one of the last of the spitballers; of a liver ailment; in Pottsville, Pa.

Died. Arthur Chevrolet, 61, last of the three Swiss brothers who made auto history in design, production and on the speedways; by his own hand (hanging); in Slidell, La. In 1909 Arthur became Motor-magnate William C. Durant’s private chauffeur. Later he and Brothers Louis and Gaston, in partnership with Durant, formed the Chevrolet Motor Co., sold out four years later, just missed becoming motormillionaires.

Died. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, Great Britain’s most brilliant socio-political economist and monetary expert, a principal architect of the Bretton Woods Plan; of a heart attack; in Firle, Sussex (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Juan Bautista Sacasa, M.D., 71, exiled ex-President of Nicaragua (1933-36), whose regime ended with the traditional Central American military coup; in Los Angeles.